[squid-users] Sudden but sustained high bandwidth usage

[Alex Rousskov]

On 03/07/2016 02:00 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
> I do not know exactly what this means from the info page:
>         Maximum number of file descriptors:   81920
>         Largest file desc currently in use:   6157
>         Number of file desc currently in use: 8216
> 
> If the number of FD currently in use is 8216 then the largest file desc
> currently in use doesn't match.


In SMP Squid, the total number of descriptors used by all kids usually
exceeds the maximum file descriptor used by kids. If you consider a
simple case of two kids, each using the first 100 descriptors, you will
see why (200 > 100).

Alex.